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It is impossible to enjoy idling thoroughly unless one has plenty of work to do. There is no fun in doing nothing when you have nothing to do. Wasting...more

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I like work: it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours.

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I should never make anything of a fisherman. I had not got sufficient imagination

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But who wants to be foretold the weather? It is bad enough when it comes, without our having the misery of knowing about it beforehand.

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I don't know why it should be, I am sure; but the sight of another man asleep in bed when I am up, maddens me.

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I don't understand German myself. I learned it at school, but forgot every word of it two years after I had left, and have felt much better ever since...more

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I looked at the piles of plates and cups, and kettles, and bottles and jars, and pies and stoves, and cakes, and tomatoes, &c., and felt that the thin...more